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Updated On: 28 July, 2009 08:11 AM IST | | Vaidehi Limaye
2008: Over 100 cases of medical negligence registered. 2009: Just one filed yesterday; minute technicalities in filing such cases make sure that...
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2008: Over 100 cases of medical negligence registered. 2009: Just oneu00a0 filed yesterday; minute technicalities in filing such cases make sure that...
Last year, around 100 cases of medical negligence were registered with the Central Consumer Forum. But withu00a0 half the year already gone by, 2009's first case was filed only yesterday.
A man from Beed has filed a case against Jaslok Hospital for a botched angioplasty. But this massive drop in number, say consumer lawyers, has nothing to do with better medical care in the country.
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